whose
wife was "Mary, da. of Francis Combes of com. Hertf."
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/ ... index.html
On the American side, I think Mr. John-1 Coombs of Plymouth Colony
would be a descendant, IF one accepts the English origin hypothesized
by Robert Wakefield in TAG (? 1996-97); and IF one traced the
ancestry
of his putative mother, Jane (Pope) Combe(s), whom J. E. Cussans
identified as "sister to the Earl of Downe" (_History of
Hertfordshire_, vol. 3, part 1, pp.154-55). The 1st Earl of Downe had
Brocket ancestry